Fascism This is the age of fear, inequality and extreme forms of government. ... Fascism tends to celebrate masculinity, mystical unity, and the regenerative power of violence, just like Islamic Fundamentalism. ... Although the motivations are slightly different, the fascists having the eugenics as the basis of their ideology, and the goal of lebensraum, and the fundamentalists had the religious basis, and literal interpretation of the Koran, the result nonetheless is extreme violence and terror. ...

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It is erroneous to use violence against a people due to religious differences. ... And to base a war on dissimilarity is extreme. ... Another reason where an act of violence is not justified is the use of force to acquire ownership of land or structures. ... In my opinion, we all have the right to a space as equal as another's, however the use of violence is not necessarily the correct option to elucidate this problem. ... I also find it irreputable to use violence for total control of a people or any political position. ...

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The CIA's publicized detention and interrogation program has since been ended in 2009 by President Obama, and a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the program's interrogation techniques had, surprisingly, concluded by stating that torture methods such as waterboarding, stress-position placing, and extreme human confinement were ineffective means of acquiring information. ... Torture for the Geneva Conventions is "violence to life and person.... Is "do nothing" passivity that leads to violence less ethically questionable than active aggression that directl...

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The CIA's publicized detention and interrogation program has since been ended in 2009 by President Obama, and a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the program's interrogation techniques had, surprisingly, concluded by stating that torture methods such as waterboarding, stress-position placing, and extreme human confinement were ineffective means of acquiring information. ... Torture for the Geneva Conventions is "violence to life and person.... Is "do nothing" passivity that leads to violence less ethically questionable than active aggression that directl...

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Violence is one of the tools that the illegal armed forces use to obtain power by generating fear. ... From the beginning these two groups have imposed themselves in society through violence, "during the past four decades, over 200,000 have lost their lives and more than three million have been forced from their homes by violence or intimidation" (Howe 1). ... Howe talks about his girlfriend's personal experience and how not only did the guerrilla use violence against the citizens and their opponents, but also within their organization. ... After going through all this experienc...

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They feel so strongly about these beliefs that violence has broken out in some known instances. ... The Catholic Church believes that abortion should be undertaken only in extreme circumstances such as when the mother is in risk of dying. ... It is easy to sympathise with women who are pregnant due to rape or incest, which are definitely extreme circumstances but a healthy woman who has fallen pregnant has little or no excuses. ...

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So if there is a universal declaration, meaning every single person in the world should have these rights, why are there still individuals who still have to withstand torture, violence, and extreme violation of their human rights? ... The regime even lead to the lunacy of women having their fingers removed for simply wearing nail varnish or to the extreme of execution for defying the Taleban orders. (2) The abuse of human rights does not stop at women but children too. ...

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Ethnic violence in Central Europe, repression in East Timor, or some other outrage you haven't even heard about yet? ... The most publicized case of slavery in the modern world is, according to many, not even the most extreme. ... "If people are paid absolutely nothing and they're held under a threat of violence and they're economically exploited, then they're in slavery," he says. ...

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In the documentation of human rights violations and acts of violence connected with the armed confrontation, the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) registered a total of 42,275 victims, including men, women and children. ... Combining this data with the results of other studies of political violence in Guatemala, the CEH estimates that the number of persons killed or disappeared as a result of the confrontation reached a total of over 200,000 (www.ceh.com). ... More than 70 percent of rural residents are classified as living in extreme poverty, compared to 36 percent of urban inha...

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The United Nations Security Council demonstrated extreme incompetence by gathering a force of 5000 troops, but failing to organize them to arrive in Rwanda in time, before the conclusion of the genocide. ... In addition to NGO's, the media played an important role in spreading awareness of the violence and atrocities of the genocide around the world. ...

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In one extreme case, "if the abductor does not have the means to make the above-mentioned payment, let him be given over to the parents of the girl that they may have the power of doing to him whatever they choose."" ... A prime example of the cherish-oppress relationship exists in this law, "If any slave does violence to a native freewoman, and if the she complains and is clearly able to prove this, let the slave be killed for crime committed."" ...

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There is nothing in the Qur"an that authorized it (UN, 1994)" The UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy, reacting to the Egyptian court decision, stated: "The recognition that female genital mutilation cannot be justified under Islamic law is an enormously important element in making the case for the abolition of the cruel, ritualized form of violence against women and girls... the clarity and authoritativeness of the decision is a dramatic affirmation of the rights of women and girls that will reverberate far beyond Egypt. ...

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Albert Memmi, The Two Answers of the Colonized Memmi writes that colonizers are creatures of want while all who are colonized need change. The fact that the colonizers do not see this is due either to a lack of understanding of colonization or their own selfishness. If the colonizer is acting as th...

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This view advocates the idea that in extreme cases of human rights abuses, the international community has the responsibility to protect civilians from 'genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity' where states fail. ... In response to the violence of 2011, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1970 in February, which referred the conflict to the International Criminal Court (ICC), to investigate the 'gross and systematic violation of human rights'. ...

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"So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen"(2 Sam 1:10). These were the words of the Amalekite who killed Saul because he found him suffering. This young man decided that he would take the life of an "anointed" servant of the Lord and fel...

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More broadly, a sweatshop is a workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage or benefits, poor working conditions and arbitrary discipline (Department of Labor, 2). ... Every person has basic human rights such as enough to eat, equality of opportunity, an education, freedom from violence, and a livelihood. ...

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In transgressing the law of Nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity, which is that measure God has set to the actions of men for their mutual security, and so he becomes dangerous to mankind; the tie which is to secure them from injury and violence being slighted and broken by him, which being a trespass against the whole species, and the peace and safety of it, provided for by the law of Nature, every man upon this score, by the right he hath to preserve mankind in general, may restrain, or where it is necessary, destroy things noxio...

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Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ...

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Furthermore, governments in the Middle East and North Africa have for many years adopted laws and policies in the name of combating violence or "terrorism-, which are not in consistency with their obligations under human rights law and standards. ...

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